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САМОУПРАВЉАЊЕ И ДРЖАВА
SELF-MANAGEMENT AND THE STATE

Author(s): Radovan Pavićević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Theory, Politics and society
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду

Summary/Abstract: Communist self-management presuppose the social liberalization of man. It is possible only when society surpasses the contradiction of the period of transformation, as a requisite phase in the development of society, conditioned not only by the development of the means of production, but by the general features of man himself as well, who never complies with a socially unequal position. Communist self-management means the surpassing of the political constitution of society, but it does not mean the surpassing of every need for a social organization and true social authority. Communist society must rest on a socially liberated personality, that freedom cannot be some individualistic want, but the „knowledge of the requisite”. The idea of socialist self-management is contained in the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat. It is also contained in the idea of a proletarian state organized so that it „can and must wither away". The proletarian state in marxist theory is termed as an organization principally of another nature” in regard to the capitalist state. It is a state in the relative sense, the relativity being, first of all, in the dialectical unity of state elements and elements of communist self-management. With the surpassing of clase relations the state elements wither away. In other words, social list self-management should be that relative state, a unified socio-political system, a form of the dictatorship of the proletariat through which the state functions and fades. Once the proletarian state is organized as an integral system of socialist self-management, it withers away spontaneously, through its functions and not by its abolishment. The abolishing of the state leads to anarchy in society, which is illustrated by examples from our reality.

  • Issue Year: 32/1984
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 170-178
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian